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THE WEIRS TIMES, Thursday, January 14, 2010
rAmBling from 9
I couldn’t see outside, but report regarding the in-
came back to life. I dialed we imagined it was snow- vestigation of the Stacey
611 which is MetroCast’s ing steadily. By Sunday Burns’ murder. Recently,
customer service num- morning, our plowman however, a person, native
ber. I poked the correct called to see if we needed to Wolfeboro, but now
phone buttons as I was to be plowed! Being blind residing in Brookfield,
instructed, to report tele- in one eye, it’s nearly im- was arrested for traffick-
phone trouble. A pleasant possible for me to judge ing in cocaine. Wakefield
representative was on the snow depth by looking Police, the Carroll County
line reasonably quickly. out the window. So I au- Sheriff’s Department and
Not only that, he allowed tomatically said, yes, we the Wolfeboro Police de-
me to have a conversation need to be plowed. When partment made the arrest
with him about our phone we were plowed, our plow- at the man’s Brookfield
outage without my hav- man estimated the snow home. The information
ing to disclose our secret depth in our driveway to that inspired the inves-
MetroCast PIN #. Not at have been 3 inches! tigation and arrest had
all encouraging, however, At every opportunity come from the Wolfeboro
was the fact that he was that day, WMUR-TV’s Police Department, it was
totally unaware of their weather people prattled reported. Whenever, in
having been an interrup- on and on about the tre- the days following the ar-
tion to MetroCast’s phone mendous disparity in rest, the subject has come
service in the “Wolfeboro snow accumulations that up in conversations that
Area” (his words). there had been through- I’ve had with my other
At bedtime Saturday out the state. Personally, Wolfeboro area friends,
night, the predicted wind it seemed to me that their the consensus has been
began to howl. Malzy and true message was that that, “It was about time
the person was arrested.”
The arrested individual
is from a well known and
widely liked local fam-
Here’s Diablo going to work on his replacement Hookie
ily. The arrested person’s
Home • Auto • Business
Long-Tail toy. His first Hookie Long-Tail lasted two years
drug activities have been
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before he was able to tear its head open!
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their yards. Fortunately, 18 slot. Channel 12 now lice chief with the guts,
they were also nearly dead incessantly promotes Met- integrity and leadership
wrong about the possibil- roCast’s offerings. Many to make this long needed
ity of widespread power other moves for the sake arrest a reality. As I’ve
outages. That Forum of moving have also hap- mentioned before, it’s my
member was right; No one pened. The most illogical opinion that had Chief
scares New Hampshire move of all has displaced Stuart Chase been given
like WMUR does. WCSH-TV’s Channel 6 the lead in the Burns’
MetroCast’s cable TV home on cable channel 6 murder investigation, that
“service” is another mat- to cable channel 15, which case would have also seen
ter. For reasons that seem was formerly Fox. Fox has an arrest by now. For
to defy logic, MetroCast moved to cable channel 6. some reason or other, the
has played a game of mu- These are just some of New Hampshire Attor-
sical chairs with the chan- MetroCast’s changes. As ney General’s office has
nels of our cable TV line- usual, zero new channels “led” the investigation.
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